[kj] Top 10, post-Y2K

[Pssyche]

Wolfmother are a band I have in mind when I think of "complete and utter
fucking shite that should have been drowned at birth" bands!

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From: "B. Oliver Sheppard" <bigblackhair at sbcglobal.net>
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Subject: Re: [kj] Top 10, post-Y2K



> Wolfmother are a band I have in mind when I think of "throwback" bands.

>

> Mika Miko have been called a throwback to The Slits.

>

> The Donnas, a throwback to The Runaways. Yes, The Donnas have been

> around for awhile, but when did they get popular? After Y2K.

>

> There've always been throwbacks -- Sha Na Na in the 1970s was a

> throwback to 50s greaser or doo-wop groups -- but in the past 5 years

> folks trying to be the new Syd Barrett or the new Television

> Personalities, Jam, Undertones, or whatever, seems to have just

> increased exponentially. It's become such a bog-standard part of the

> contemporary music scene no one is even starting to think of it as

> throwback stuff any more. It just is, boutique thrift store chic and all.

>

> A lot of it is driven by what I think Ian MacKaye aptly described in

> that Soft Focus interview I posted: the heavy historicization nowadays

> of a certian period of music history that really makes younger kids feel

> like they've missed the boat, and must reformulate that stuff or

> throwback to that to be cool.

>

> -Oliver

>

>

> Javier Garcia wrote:

> > You're so very right! One good example in my case is Motherwolf, which

> > is a pretty good band but not original at all: one song sounds like

> > Black Sabbath, the other like Led Zeppelin, another like Jethro Tull...

>

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